John Cranley, 38, was on City Council from 2000 to 2009. He also was chairman of Cincinnati’s City Council Finance Committee from 2001 to 2009.

“I will bring fresh energy and new ideas to the Mayor’s office,” said Cranley in a statement on his website. “I will listen to voices from every neighborhood and together we will jumpstart our economy and build a Cincinnati that is greater than the one I grew up in and stronger than the city we live in today.”

Cranley is a graduate of St. Xavier High School as well as John Carroll University and Harvard’s schools of Law and Divinity. He is a co-founder of the Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.